Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Thursday | January 14, 2010
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Bolt a cinch - Tight race for top female award
The nation's top female sporting talent are expected to square off once again, this time around in ballroom dresses and stilettos, as the RJR Sports Foundation gets set to name the Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year...

No more knee surgery ... Simpson prefers quitting track and field to going under the knife again
Olympic 100-metre silver medallist Sherone Simpson has her eyes set on becoming a world and Olympic champion by the time her career comes to an end. However, as much as ambition burns hot for the 25-year-old 2006 Commonwealth Games champion...

Pink ball part of global test
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): The historic use of the experimental pink ball in the Regional First-class Championship will be part of an upcoming worldwide testing plan as the International Cricket Council (ICC) moves towards playing day-night Tests within...

Usain sympathises with Haitians
Double Olympic and world-record holder Usain Bolt has expressed sympathy towards the people of Haiti, following the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc in that country on Tuesday evening.There has been mass destruction...

Hope for young Reggae Boyz - Under-23 programme to begin this year
Young players who fail to make the final cut for the national team can look forward to being included in the Under-23 set-up later this year, as the Reggae Boyz continue a drive to unearth fresh talent ahead of the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign...

Gabon top Cameroon
LUBANGO, Angola (AP): World Cup qualifiers are still without a win at the African Cup of Nations after Gabon beat Cameroon 1-0 yesterday. Zambia held Tunisia to 1-1 in Group D's other game...

Cave Hill, GC Foster win
Defending champions Cave Hill and G.C. Foster College were winners on yesterday's opening day of the University of Technology (UTech) 20/20 cricket classic. In the double-header at UTech, University of West Indies ...

Kerr places 11th at meet
Jamaican skier Errol Kerr finished 11th at the Alpe d'Huez Ski Cross World Cup in France yesterday after posting a points tally of 240.00 in the final round. Twenty-two-year-old Kerr, a founding member of the Jamaican ski team, ended in the same position...

SPORTS BRIEFS
Smith's NSW out - SYDNEY, Australia (CMC):Dwayne Smith failed to fire as his New South Wales crashed out of the Twenty20 Big Bash with a 54-run loss to Queensland yesterday.


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